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Well, Pipi came to stay and my liver packed up and left. We had so much fun, it's hard to believe I now have to settle back into ordinary everyday life. The hightlights? Sapporo was wonderful, in particular our daytrip to Otaru, where the snow, combined with Pipi's and my poor choice of footwear led us to do the unthinkable... but matching red gumboots to stride around the city. We must have looked quite the sight, but seeing as our feet were finally dry, we couldn't have cared less. Below (or above, I can never be sure where the stupid blog will put these words) are a few shots of the shenanigans that ensued after our afternoon spent in an Otaru beerhall, where we, the only customers, drank about five litres of beer in the space of an our thanks to a little old Japanese money-making concept "nomi hodai". Basically it means all you can drink for an hour, and they anticipate primarily Japanese clientel who could probably manage 2 beers in an hour. Ha ha ha, we showed them, and I think we drank the place dry, leaving the management dumbfounded and destitute.